Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder

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Giovanni Battista Lampi the Elder (de: Johann Baptist von Lampi der Ältere) (1751-1830) was a Italian historical and portrait painter. He was born at Romeno, today in the Italian Province of Trento. He became a professor at the Vienna Academy in 1786, but subsequently he resided in Russia, where he devoted himself to portrait painting, and amassed a large fortune. He died at Vienna. He painted a portrait of the Empress Maria Fedorovna. His son, Johann Baptist the Younger, was also a painter.

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• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 8.